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“Il vino è il condensato di un territorio, di una cultura, di uno stile di vita.” (Ernest Hemingway) Mi piaciono gli incontri con le gente come lo è stato in questo caso ..Vai per la prima volta in luogo sconosciuto e percepisci subito una sensazione di pace al cuore, uno spazio amichevole dove […]
“Not to smile, but to drink is natural for the man. I don’t say to drink in a simple and absolute way , because this is the way how the animals use to drink, I say to drink a good and fresh wine. With wine one becomes divines.” ( François Rabelais ) Agriculture family farm of wine producers […]
“ Travel diary, discoveries and curiosities among Leopardi’s Rolling Hills of Infinity “ “The wine is the condensation of territory, of culture, of the lifestyle.” Ernest Hemingway Gianluca Mirizi.. the visionarie, the dreamer, the person who is always innovative, who brings the innovation to his company, the most recent progressive methods , but […]
“Wine prepairs hearts and keep them more ready for passion .” Publius Ovidius Naso Founded at 1959, initially by 19 winegrowers of Cupramontana ( at the heart of classical zone of production of Verdicchio dei Castelli dei Jesi ) , today includes 190 partners, holders of vineyards area exceeding 160 hectars , where […]
“ Diario di viaggio, scoperte e curiosità, tra le dolci colline dell’ Infinito leopardiano “ Bevo champagne soltanto in due occasioni: quando sono innamorata e quando non lo sono. Coco Chanel Cupramontana è la città delle bollicine, o meglio ancora la capitale delle bollicine del Verdicchio . A Cupramontana, nel quore della Regione Marche, troviamo un’ […]
The wine, especially in Italy, is the poetry of the land. Mario Soldati I keep as a dear moment in my memory , the visit of the winery of family Socci, one of the nicest reminders of the estate of 2020. Being accommodated at the village Rosora, part of city Castelplanio I took advantage of […]
“Happiness,like precious wine , should be tasted source by source .” Ludwing Feuerbach I visited Marche for the first time in summer 2019. I was really curious to taste finally Verdicchio which I used to know just a little. Meanwhile planning the travel and my allocation, I decided to accomodate at zone of city Jesi, […]
Travel diary, discoveries and curiosities among Leopardi’s Rolling Hills of Infinity “Life is too short to drink mediocre wines.” Wolfgang Goethe The Coroncino farm is situated just a few kilometres from the city Staffolo. The area which is denominated as “ Verdichio hills “. Also here I met passionate people with the grand […]
“Water divide people. Wine unit them.” Libero Bovio At this time I would like to tell you the story of about my visit of the winery Finocchi Viticoltori at Staffolo city, the area nominated “Colle di Verdicchio “ The stimulation of my visit was in this case not only my never ending passion for […]
«The noble motivation ,nevertheless, is that the wine from Marche have that what we call in Italy genius loci. That means that wines from Marche are scientifivaly distinguishable, typical and there are not reproducible in sensory profile. The wine from Marche has character , as Vernaccia di Serrapetrona, Verdicchio di Matelica, Lacrima di Morro d’Alba […]
“The wine does not serve as a drink , but it is also sniffed , observed , tasted , sipped and… discussed “ Eduard VII The company is situated on the hills of municipality Serra de’Conti, just in the heart of zone of cultivation of Verdichio Classico, the piece of the land […]
“The discovery of wine is the moment more important than finding new constellation, the universe is too much full of stars .” Benjamin Franklin Agriculture farm Pievalta was born as a project of Silvano Brescianini which was realised by oenolog Alessandro Fenino from 2002. From 2005 the farm started to transform to the biodynamic […]
“God, touched by guilty, have had a dream ; the man added wine, holy son of the sun. “ Charles Baudelaire I have to say, that I wanted to visit the cellar of Silvano Strologo already about two years ago, during my first visit a Marche, but I didn’t succeed because of time shortage. This time I have […]
I have had heard about her wines just by chance, during the visit of other vinery nearby, where I tasted an excellent Verdichio in bio quality from La Staffa and the young winemaker Riccardo Baldi have told me about incredible foreigner women, who owns the winery just a few kilometers from him and produces excellent wines . […]
“ The wine is the sunlight held together by water . “ Galileo Galilei The estate Maison Vevey Albert was founded in 1968 by Albert Vevey, the pioneer of wine growing in Aosta Valley, and after the death of father in 1990, his sons Mario and Mirko are continuing with the production of […]
The wine cellar Cave Mont Blanc , placed in city La Salle, at the feed of Mont Blanc. The vineyards are the highest in Europe, reach 1200 m above the sea level. Here is finally the variety Priè Blanc, the variety most old in the Aosta Valley, one of progenitors of the others autochthonous varieties from […]
“ The wine is one of most big achievement of the man who has transformed perisherable fruit in something permanent “ ( Jean Arlot ) I have met Piero Brunet for the first time at the exhibition Fiera vini estremi in Forte di Bard in 2017. It was also my first meeting with the […]
The true experts don’t drink the wine. They are tasting a secrets” ( Salvador Dali ) I must to say , when I came back in my records, I seems to be lucky. Here is a new story to tell. In reality this story initiated during my visit to the estate of Anna Santis. Anna Santis […]
“ The wine is the bottled poetry “ ( Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson ) Gargantua, the person from the books of François Rabelais Gargantua a Pantagruel, the giant who was the lover of food and wines. In the area of Gressan is located the prolonged hill named “ the finger of Gargantua “. This is […]
“The land is as good as those who work it “ ( Marcus Aurelius) The place that attacks the mountains in vicinity to the city. The view of mountains, Mont Velán at horizons, in proximity of Valtellina, alpine pastures and the Switzerland border. The difference with other agricultural estates, as I sent it, is […]
“ What we look in wine: the beauty, the colour, the culture, the pleasure and the dream. “ ( G.Jacquenot ) The company Grosjean. Other of the biggest producers if we spoke about the number of produced wines, but not only . Briefly . From 2011 biological winery. The third generation of winegrowers of […]
“ There is nothing more inside of wine if not the sunlight mixed with the liquid of vine “ ( Galileo Galilei ) My first encounter with wines from company Di Barrò was happened in summer when I had visited the event Wines in Vineyards in Aymavilles.But, in reality, I was already curious before to taste […]
When I come back in my memory at Valley d’Aosta, I remember only a sunny days, even if there were not only those . But it’s how our memory works, sometimes keeps the selected impressions only. In any case , during my visits at Maison Anselmet, and consequently, La Plantze , the days were hot and sunny. And […]
Les Crétes and Constantino Charrère, great winemaker who made a lot for the world of wines of Valle d’Aosta. One of producers from Valley d’Aosta who cultivated autochthonous varieties from Valle d’Aosta, who helped to save rare varieties, typically cultivated at Valle d’Aosta only , which are the part of cultural heritage and the richness of […]
